Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday, extending a formal invitation for the oath-taking ceremony of his government, scheduled to take place in Ranchi on November 28.
Hemant Soren was accompanied by his wife Kalpana Soren, the newly elected MLA from the Gandey constituency.
Prime Minister Modi met Hemant and Kalpana Soren and posted pictures on X.
Before that, Hemant Soren met with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and party President Mallikarjun Kharge to invite them for the ceremony.
The oath ceremony is scheduled at Morabadi Ground in Ranchi on November 28 at 4 pm. Along with the chief minister, other ministers are to be sworn-in as well. Hemant Soren was declared leader of the INDIA Bloc unopposed at a state-level conclave here on Sunday.
A JMM spokesperson said, "Invitations have been sent to all the prominent political persons, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Bihar's Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal, CPI-ML leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, and the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, and Jammu and Kashmir.
The results of the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly elections, announced on November 23, gave the Hemant Soren-led JMM-Congress-RJD alliance a resounding victory with 56 seats. The JMM won 34, the Congress 16, the RJD 4, and the CPI-ML 2 seats. This marks the first time a government in Jharkhand has secured a two-thirds majority.
Hemant Soren is going to be the first leader to be sworn in as Jharkhand's Chief Minister four times. He took oath first on July 13, 2013, leading a Congress-RJD-supported government until December 2014.
He came back as CM on December 29, 2019, but was made to resign after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on January 31, 2024. He was sworn in for the third time after his release on bail on July 4, 2024.
Earlier, his father Shibu Soren and BJP's Arjun Munda have each served three terms as Jharkhand Chief Minister.
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